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Firefox 4 beta 4 features hardware acceleration ... but will be off by default

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I first heard of using the graphics card to accelerate the desktop in 2001.
Zogg 20th Aug 2010
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IIRC, Carsten "The Rasterman" Haitzler demonstrated a hardware-accelerated (via the graphics card) window manager called "Evas" back in 2001. I'm fairly sure this pre-dates anything MS has announced for IE9...
ie8 fix

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